Lobsters and Wind - June 15

Under the Sea and Up in the Air Learning

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Today is Lobster Day, Global Wind Day, Fly a Kite Day, Magna Carta Day, National Electricity Day, Kiss a Wookie Day, Native American Citizenship Day, Nature Photography Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and Worldwide Day of Giving.

June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Lobsters and Wind

ON THIS DATE

1215 - England's King John puts his seal on the Magna Carta.
1648 - Midwife Margaret Jones becomes the first person executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when she is hanged in Boston.
1775 - George Washington is appointed head of the Continental Army.
1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established on 200 acres of what once was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's estate.
1901 - 1,000 people die in a fire on the steamboat General Slocum on the East River in New York City.
1921 - Bessie Colman becomes the first licensed female African American pilot.

BIRTHDAYS

1479 - Italian model for the Mona Lisa Lisa del Giocondo
1843 - Nowegian composer Edvard Grieg
1878 - Golfer Margaret Abbott
1937 - Musician Waylon Jennings
1953 - Chinese President Xi Jinping
1969 - Rapper and actor Ice Cube
1973 - Actor Neil Patrick Harris

SONGS OF THE DAY

B52s - Rock Lobster - LISTEN
Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary - LISTEN
Kansas - Dust in the Wind - LISTEN
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In the Wind - LISTEN
Nate King Cole - Mona Lisa - LISTEN
Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood from Peer Gynt - LISTEN
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson - Mamma Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Cowboys - LISTEN

THEME: Lobsters

Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Abby and Emmy Rossum Stay Focused! (2:01) - VIEW
Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Little Lost Lobster (3:42) - VIEW
Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Little Lost Lobster - The Mangrove Forest (3:32) - VIEW
Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - How to Activate Your Lobster Creature Powers (8:07) - VIEW
Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - Swiming with the Lobster (2:05) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay. to Be Smart - You Are an Upside-Down Lobster (4:01) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Rising Water Temperatures Could End Maine's Lobster Boom (8:34) - VIEW
Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior - The Secret Life of Lobsters (7:20) - VIEW

THEME: Wind

Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Listen to the Wind Blow (2:52) - VIEW
Grades K-2 - Sid the Science Kid - What is Wind? (1:35) - VIEW
Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Wind Power Experiment (3:16) - VIEW
Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (28:05) - VIEW
Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (Spanish) (28:05) - VIEW
Grades 3-12 - National Weather Service - Beaufort Wind Scale - READ
Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Measuring Wind Speed (1:13) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Wind Power (2:33) - VIEW and DO

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